Ultimate way to find phone numbers in PHP string with preg_replace

Question

working on a project right now where we have large amount of text strings that we must localize phone numbers and make them clickable for android phones.

The phone n

Answer 1

Try the following:

preg_match_all('/\+?[0-9][\d-\()-\s+]{5,12}[1-9]/', $text, $matches);

or:

preg_match_all('/(\+?[\d-\(\)\s]{8,20}[0-9]?\d)/', $text, $matches);